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brushfire
noun 2
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1BRUSHFIRE + NOUN
operation
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noun
1
A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests.
2
A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area.
It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.
I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.
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It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.
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I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfi
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If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.
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